NetBackup

History

• In 1987, Chrysler Corporation engaged Control Data Corporation to write a backup software solution. A small group of engineers wrote the software. Other Control Data customers later adopted it for their own needs.
• In 1990, Control Data formed the Automated Workstation Backup System business unit. The first version of AWBUS supported two tape drives in a single robotic carousel with the SGI IRIX operating system.
• In 1993, Control Data renamed the product to BackupPlus 1.0. Software improvements included support for media Volume Management and Server Migration/Hierarchical Storage Management.
• In late 1993, OpenVision Technologies acquired the product and Control Data’s Storage Management 12-person team. This is why, on UNIX platforms, NetBackup installs into /usr/openv. During this time, OpenVision renamed Backup Plus to NetBackup.
• On May 6, 1997 Veritas acquired OpenVision Technologies, including absorption of the NetBackup product line.
• In 2005 Symantec acquired Veritas and NetBackup became a Symantec product. Also at that time, Symantec released NetBackup 6.0, the 30th version of the software.
• In 2015 Symantec announced they would be splitting off the Information Management Business which contains NetBackup, into a new public company named Veritas Technologies Corporation.

  Main features

• NetBackup Accelerator
• *"Instant" scanning technology to provide faster full backups by eliminating the need to read the entire file system
• Intelligent Data Deduplication and Auto Image Replication
• *Client or server-side deduplication via data deduplication engine that can see into the backup streams
• *AIR supports backup image replication to other netbackup domain
• NetBackup Replication Director
• *Managing snapshots and replications from NetBackup and providing the ability move them to secondary storage. Snapshots and replicas act as recovery points and get cataloged
• NetBackup Search and Operational Restore
• * Built-in indexing and the ability to restore files through search. Operational restores let operators or application owners self-serve their restore needs.
• Security
• *Data Encryption
• *Access Control
• *Secure communications
• Performance
• *Synthetic Backups
• *Disk Staging
• *Checkpoint restart
• *Multiplexed Backup
• *Multi-streamed Backup
• *Inline Copy
• *Online NetBackup catalog backup
• *Instant Recovery for vmware
• Management and Reporting
• *Java administration console and activity monitor
• *Web-based management reporting
• *Tape volume, drive and library viewing
• *Error message identification, categorization and troubleshooting
• *NetBackup vCenter plugin
• *Add-in for Microsoft SCVMM Console
• *Localization/Language packs
• *RESTful API
• Media Management
• *Enterprise Media Manager
• *Automatic robotic/tape drive configuration
• *Broad tape device support
• Heterogeneous Support
• *Broad platform support
• *Bare-metal restore, supports P2V as an option.
• *Support for leading networking topologies
• *Advanced software and hardware snapshot support
• *NetBackup RealTime
• *OpenStorage support
• *Backup as a Service
• *Limited IPv6 support
• *CloudCatalyst with over 40+ cloud connectors. Archive to the cloud
• *Virtual Appliance - Deploy into existing virtual environments, including data centers and remote offices

  Major releases

• 8.3 released on July 28, 2020
• 8.2 released on June 26, 2019
• * Added Support for Red Hat Virtualization
• 8.1 was released on September 26, 2017
• 8.0 was released in December, 2016
• 7.7 was released in July 2015
• 7.6 was released in October, 2013
• 7.5 was released in March, 2012
• 7.1 was released in February, 2011
• 7.0 was released in February, 2010
• 6.5 was released in August, 2007
• 6.0 was released in October, 2005
• 5.0 was released in December, 2003
• 4.5 was released in 2002
• 3.4 was released in June, 2000
• 3.0 was released in November, 1997
• 2.0 was released in June, 1996
• 1994: OpenVision coined the name NetBackup and released release 1.6